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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The post is up: https://www.iceblock.app/android

Turns out it's about the notifications not the location, though it still indirectly is about location since the notifications are geographically specific.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've only got my family and friends to reference, but it breaks about 70/30 with the MAGA conservatives on Android/iPhone and 80/20 for the liberals/leftists preferring iPhones.

And of my family at least, I suspect a big part of that is the conservatives are not the tech savvy ones who go into a store, knowing what kind of device they want; they just go into their cell phone provider and get whatever is least expensive for a smartphone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

But if the user doesn't create an account and the deviceID rotates frequently, is there any way to tie those coordinates at a specific time to a specific person in a large enough geographical area and provide notifications (also provided via on device only services)? That's what it seems like the developer has said Apple facilitates better.

The also said they will have a more detailed post up July 2nd about android on their site.

See also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"Apple keeps most of your location history on your device: the bits of information stored in the cloud are either end-to-end encrypted, meaning only you can decipher them, or anonymized. As such, the risk of having your location history compromised by a data breach, or by a request from law enforcement to Apple for this data, is greatly reduced."

In this case they are anonymized. The service can tell what device is where but not what user that deviceID matches and those identifiers are rotated to make it harder to match that data up.

From: https://privacyinternational.org/guide-step/5537/guide-keeping-your-mobile-phones-location-history-private

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

At this point my understanding from other sources is that they can't distribute via the android App Store in a way that uses location tracking and notifications but is still anonymous where they can with iOS because location services is device side only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's a lot of great advice and reassurance in here already. It sounds like you're doing all right to me too.

A more uncommon suggestion that fits in here is that we see evidence that reading to kids no matter the age, yes even this young has benefits later in life. Your local library may have a 1,000 books before kindergarten program (they are pretty common) and it's never too early to enroll.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck is this shit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nakor upgraded from his magic bag.

/obscure?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, wealthy people who love being seen at all the hot stuff in NYC are suddenly going to move somewhere else without the clout like Kansas City.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You can use it to pay a medieval plague doctor that will give you leech therapy. They will need to place the leeches at the base of your cylinder as well as any free hanging olive shaped objects attached to the cylinder to shrink it so your homemade fleshlight falls off-I mean so the m&m tube- I mean the Manny the mammoth toy falls off your dick-I mean ohhhh you touch my tra-la-la

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Seems to have the right tone, you also get a clip of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

 
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The local high school is considering redoing their selections for their 9th grade Sci Fi unit and I’m privileged enough to be able to provide suggestions. Currently they have a choice of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson, Scythe by Neil Shusterman, and Unwound also by Shusterman.

It doesn’t have to be explicitly YA, but definitely YA accessible, and preferably something that will keep a 9th grader interested and isn’t just a fluffy book but challenges thinking/perceptions like good Sci Fi can. My goal is something near 300-ish pages but if it’s a faster read more is ok.

TiA

 

There’s been some debate over the last year or so regarding Bluesky and how decentralized it really is. There has also been a growing fear that “enshittification is inevitable.” Or, worse, that an “evil billionaire” might take it over and ruin it the way other platforms have been ruined.

But I think it’s important to understand that Bluesky has, effectively, created a technological poison pill: by building on an open protocol, ATprotocol, the system itself can be rebuilt outside of Bluesky, but in a way where everyone can continue to communicate, and that creates incredible incentives that undermine any evil billionaires, and would actually punish Bluesky (or anyone else!) should they try to enshittify.

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It’s that time that @[email protected], @[email protected], and I are starting to plan out Bingo for when it relaunches later this year. And we thought that we would reach out to see if we met some of our goals and ask if you had any feedback or suggestions.

While this was initially inspired by the Book Bingo on r/Fantasy, since we are smaller we wanted it to be less genre specific, while still encompassing recreational reading. For those who participated or considered participating, how did we do? Is there a way to improve?

We already have quite a few ideas for squares, but if you have one that you’d be willing to share, please feel free.

We started with the posts that are linked in the weekly book thread and a Storygraph challenge, are there any other resources or opportunities that we missed to make it more accessible?

Any other thoughts are welcome too. Thank you.

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ALT: a BlueSky post by Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social); it says “Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.”

 
 
 
 

The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers.

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